Gods Own Drunk chords by Jimmy Buffett

• Difficulty: Beginner

♫ Intro:

E7 A7 E7 │ A7 E7 │ C7 B7 C7 B7 │ E7 B7


♫ Verse :
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Well, like I explain to you all before, I ain't no drinkin' man
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I tried it once and it got me highly irregular
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And I swore I'd never do it again
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But I promised my brother in-law that I'd go up watch his still

While he went in to town to vote
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 It was right up on the mountain where the map said it would be
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Friends let me tell you one thing, though
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It wasn't no ordinary still
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It stood up on that mountainside like… a huge golden opal
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 God's yeller moon shinin' on the cool clear evenin'
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 God's little lanterns twinklin' on and off in the heavens
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 Like I explain'd to you once before I ain't no drinkin' man
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 But temptation got the best of me… and I took a slash
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 That yella whiskey runnin' down my throat

Like honey dew vine water and I took another slash
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 Took another'n an another'n an another'n
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 For you knew I'd downed one whole jug of that shit
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And commenced to gettin' hot flashes
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Goose pimples was runnin' up and down my body

And a feelin' came over me
 
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Like somethin' I'd never experienced before
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It was like, like I was in love
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 In love for the first time, with anything that moved
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Animate, inanimate it didn't matter
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It's like there's a great neon sign flashin' on an' off
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In my brain sayin' "Jimmy Buffett there's a great day a comin'"
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'Cause I was drunk
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 I wasn't knee crawlin', slip slidin', Reggie Youngin'
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 Commode huggin' drunk
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 I was God's own drunk… and a fearless man
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  And that's when I first saw the bear
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 He was a Kodiak lookin' fella 'bout nineteen feet tall

He rambled up over the hill expectin' me to do one of two things
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 Flip or fly, I didn't do either one, it hung him up
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 He started sniffin' around my body tryin' to smell fear
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But he ain't gonna smell no fear 'cause

I'm God's own drunk and a fearless man. It hung him up
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 He looked right in my eyes, and my eyes
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Was a lot redder than his was. It hung him up
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 So I approached him, I said "Uh, Mr. Bear, I love
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Every hair on your twenty-seven acre body
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 I know you got a lot of friends over there

On the other side of the hill
 
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 There's ole' Rare bear, Tall bear, Freddy bear, Kelly bear
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Really bear, Smelly the bear, Smokey the bear, Pokey the bear
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I want you to go back over there tonight

And tell them I'm feelin' right
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 You tell them I love each and every one of them

Like a brother and a sister
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 But if they give me any trouble tonight
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I'm gonna run every God damn one of them off the hill
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   He took two steps backwards and didn't know what to think
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 Neither did I but bein' charitable and cautious
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Well, hell, I approached him again
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I said "Mr. Bear, You know in the eyes of the Lord
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We're both beasts when it comes right down to it
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 So I want you to be my buddy, “Buddy Bear”
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 So I took ole' buddy bear by his island size paw

And I led him over to the still
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 He's a sniffin' around that thing cause he’s smellin something good
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 I gave him one of them jugs of honey dew vine water

He downed it up right
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Looked like one of them damn bears in the circus

Sippin' sasparilly in the moonlight
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 I gave him another'n an another'n an another'n

For I knew it he downed eight of them
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And commenced to doin' the bear dance

Two snips, a snort, a fly turn, and a grunt
 
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 It was so simple like the jitter bug, it plum evaded me
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 We worked ourselves into a tumultuous uproar, and I was
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 Awful tired and went over to the hillside
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And I laid down and went to sleep
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 Slept for four hours and dreamt me some tremulous dreams
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 Now when I woke up
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 Oh, there was God's yeller moon shinin' on the clear cool evenin'
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 God's little lanterns twinklin' on and off in the heavens
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 My buddy the bear was a-missin'
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 Yeah. Want to know something else friends and neighbors?
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So was that still

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